METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR CONSTRUCTING PERSONAL PROFILES FROM CONTACT DATA

摘要

A system and method for building a profile record for a person. Email addresses and corresponding person names are extracted from an email message and stored as records each record having an email address and corresponding person name as a key/value pair. A pair of such records is compared. If the person names are known for both records, then a match between the person names is evaluated. If the person name is known for only one of the records, then a match between the known person name for the one record and an email prefix for the other record is evaluated. If the person name is not known for either record, then a match between the email prefixes for both records is evaluated.